Monthly Horoscope

Because last year’s professional momentum only ran its course on Christmas Day and has provided more than enough traction for your new professional year to progress smoothly, what you need in the early weeks of the year is a chance to take your work hat off, without fear that you're going to lose your edge. Rather than lose any advantage, you'll align yourself with the gods and the opportunities that 2014 holds if you can move forward without your work hat on, realising this is a year that is all about following your heart, your passions and a sense of adventure. If you can do that from the get go, without over thinking things, then you'll align yourself up for what is destined to be a fun and adventurous year, where anything is possible. The key to hitting the right note from the get go and getting as much as you can from the coming year, is aligning yourself and keeping in step with the major players of the cosmos. In the early weeks of the year this means paying more attention to the social forces in play, catching up with friends, making time to connect and being a team player.

At the same time, for the first time since 2002 you're moving into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your romantic and creative sector, setting the scene for what is destined to be a lucky year for love, for matters of the heart and all things romantic and creative. Jupiter is not on his own and is in turn getting support from Saturn and Neptune, two of the giants of the solar system, who together are encouraging you to embrace a sense of adventure and follow your dreams. If you move into the New Year expecting a challenging year then you run the risk of creating self fulfilling prophecies, where the stars are standing by to make this a year full of adventure and a chance to follow your heart, your passions and your dreams.

The hype and fanfare of the New Year is something that you don’t really get, for it’s not until later in January that you start to get excited and that feeling of new doors opening finally hits. For while the 1st January is the start of a brand new year and is a chance for new beginnings, for you the old year hasn’t ended and you're not quite ready. That’s because while the calendar will now read ‘2014’, until the Sun returns to your sign on the 22nd January you're still winding down your old solar year, closing old doors and looking back. This is the case every year, but this year there is a languid feel in the air that is likely to see you want nothing more over the holiday period than to take time out, relax and unwind. This is something that you’re not going to shake, even after your birthday month and new solar year kicks off on the 22nd January. This could be a problem, but only if you see it as one, for you're moving into a very high power professional year, with a need to be on your game from the get go.

For the first time since 2002 you're moving into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your work sector and with support from powerful forces in your income and career sectors, your professional star is on the rise. The problem, if you can even call it that is that Venus, the planet that determines where we derive our pleasure and where our heart is focused, will not only move into the New Year in a reflective and nostalgic part of your chart, she won’t leave until early March, making her longest visit in over 200 years. This means that your most pleasurable moments will be those when you get to zone out, daydream and find those stolen moments where your imagination can export you to other dimensions. This will only be a problem if you see it as one, where in fact with the right time management this is just what you need in order to recharge your batteries, providing the secret weapon you need in order to be successful. At the same time, hold onto and embrace a sense of adventure, seeing the coming year as a journey to get excited about.

You are the only sign that has the distinction of being able to move into both a new solar and calendar year at the same time, allowing you to draw a very firm line in the sand. Whether you are a December or a January born Capricorn, with the Sun not leaving your sign until the 22nd January your birthday month and energy will remain in play for the first 3 weeks of the year, giving you time to get your bearings, a feel for the new energy in play and to work on your game plan. With Mercury, the smartest, most articulate and intellectually savvy planet in the solar system in your sign until the 12th January, this gives you time to get your head around your options and the choices, decisions and plans that will provide a frame work for the coming year. As the planet of communication Mercury is also playing an important role in getting what is destined to be one of your most important relationship years in over a decade off to the right start, ensuring that the communication lines are open. If you're going to make any New Year resolutions, then putting in the work and effort required to ensure the communication lines are not only open but in a real, honest and authentic way needs to be right at the top.

Yet while Mercury’s position in your sign in the early days of the year will ensure you have your head in the game, with Venus here as well your heart is also engaged, with a need to have heart and mind on the same page. Venus, planet of love will normally spend just under 4 weeks in your sign each year, so having returned in early November she should have been long gone. Instead Venus won’t leave until early March, making this her longest visit to your sign in over 200 years and moving into the year with lucky Jupiter in your relationship sector, her timing couldn’t be better. 2014 is destined to be a lucky year for both love and your relationships, making it even more important to ensure the communication lines are open.

The money gods are especially active as you move into the New Year, which in itself is not surprising, with the Sun always spending the first 3 weeks of any year in your income sector. However, that’s where all comparisons to other years begins and ends, for while the money gods will always be active at this time of year, it has never before been to the level that it is now, setting the scene for an important and auspicious year for money matters as a whole. For the first time since 2002 you're moving into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your financial sector and with 6 months already under your belt, another 6 months to run and the best yet to come, all the indicators suggest this will be a lucky year for money matters. Yet that is only one half of the picture, for while the Sun will always spend the first 3 weeks of January in your income sector and Venus, planet of money, desire and attraction is never too far away, having returned in early November she should have been long gone. Instead Venus is not only still in your income sector, she’s in retrograde motion where she’s opening the door to second chances and by the time she leaves in March, she will have completed her longest visit in over 200 years.

When some of the most auspicious income conditions ever come together during your luckiest financial year in over a decade, then moving into the New Year with your money hat on is essential. You can’t however make life all about the money and nor can the stars, with something special developing on the social, friendship and both personal and professional networking fronts, as well as a much better chance to find a balance between work and play. Choose to move into the New Year with a Wish List rather than a list of New Year resolutions.

Don’t be surprised if you move into the New Year feeling very undecided about what you want from the coming year or if you can’t make up your mind, for the problem isn’t that you can’t control what you perceive to be scattered thoughts and indecision, but that you're trying to nail things down. The reality is that you're moving into one of your most adventurous years in over a decade, one where it’s all about the journey, keeping your options open and letting life and the future surprise you. You will always move into the New Year with your head full of ideas, probably a game plan and a clear mind, allowing you to take control from the get go. However, if the last 6 months has taught you anything it’s that you can’t control life and that it really is all about the journey. Your greatest enemy, as you move into the early weeks of 2014, is over thinking, tunnel vision or feeling that you have to be on the ball from the get go, thinking on your feet and everything mapped out. This is one year where you’re not only able to make it up as you go, but it is better if you do.

You may also be feeling unmotivated, giving yourself a hard time for procrastinating, yet again this is not a year where you have to run to keep pace with opportunities and more that you’re in danger of getting too far ahead of yourself. Instead there is a need to keep your mind and your options open, let the ideas fly and even flip backwards and forwards, knowing that as long as heart and mind are on the same page, the right steps will reveal themselves, at the right time. In the early weeks of the month communication is especially important, with a need to work to ensure the communication lines are open, with home and family matters becoming more important as the month progresses.

From the get go 2014 is a year where finding the right work/life balance is both a challenge and something that is finally achievable. For the first time since 2002 you're moving into a New Year with lucky Jupiter in your career sector and with 6 months momentum already behind you, another 6 months to bring things home and support from powerful forces in play on the income and work fronts, 2014 is destined to be a huge and auspicious professional year for you. Yet standing like a gatekeeper is Venus, your ruling planet, who along with the Sun, Mercury and Pluto is making it very clear that 2014 is also an extremely important year for home and family matters. Venus will normally spend 4 weeks out of every year in your home and family sector, creating a situation where home is where the heart is, as well as the promise of special times on the home and family front. With the Sun always spending the first 3 weeks of every year in your home and family sector this is not unusual, yet while Mercury will leave on the 12th January and the Sun on the 22nd January, Venus is going to dig her toes in.

Having returned to your home and family sector in early November Venus should be long gone, but by the time she leaves in March she will have completed her longest visit in over 200 years. This creates a standoff between home and professional forces; with Venus defiantly steering down what is probably the most powerful line up of professional and income forces to assemble in your lifetime, demanding the right work/life balance. Move into the New Year assuming that you can have it all and that you'll find a way to make it work. Whatever you do on the home, personal or professional fronts throw yourself into the things that you're passionate about, leaving no room for half measures or sitting on the fence.

Your biggest challenge in the early weeks of any year is getting a sense of how you're going to find the right balance between work and play, often over thinking how to get the mix just right. This year there is a need to put that aside and simply follow your heart. You don’t really need to be on your game and can even keep your work hat off until Mercury returns to your work sector on the 12th January and even then you can afford to glide into your new working year, without the demands of previous years. In fact you have one of the most low key starts to any professional year in decades, not because you’ve lost your momentum or any kind of cosmic support and more because you've done all the hard work and can now rest on your laurels, benefiting from what you've already invested. In fact, you have a chance to smash through some glass ceilings this year, especially on the income front, as you start to look more closely at what’s in it for you. Because the Sun will always spend the first 3 weeks of any year in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged area of your chart, before returning to your work sector on the 22nd January, there is usually a slow shifting of the scales away from play and onto work.

However, this year there is something in effect that will stop the pendulum shifting the other way, with a sense of playfulness in the air that won’t shift, not for several months. At the same time there is a need to avoid moving into the New Year with a list of New Year resolutions, for you'll get a better jump on the year if you have a Wish List in your hand instead, with wishful thinking rather than discipline and sacrifice required. With two New Moons this month, the first on the 2nd January and the second on the 31st January, you can get a feel for things before drawing a new line in the sand, committing to the year ahead.

If how a year begins is any indication of how it will continue then work, time management and maybe even some health, weight or fitness objectives should be high on your list of New Year resolutions, ready to make things happen while also able to work smarter. You will move into the New Year wanting something to get stuck into and wanting to get in and make things happen. While you might take some time off over the holidays, chances are you'll soon become bored with inactivity, needing to do something with your hands and your mind to keep you occupied. While others may be slow to get into gear after the Christmas break you'll be ready to get a head start, ready to make things happen. However, this is less about what you should be doing and more about what you want to be doing, with a need to follow your heart from the get go. This may make you a little self absorbed and rightfully so, but as the month progresses relationship building will become a lot more important. Mercury, planet of communication will be the first planet to reach your relationship sector for the year, when he returns on the 12th January, 8 days ahead of the Sun.

Yet even before Mercury returns to open the communication lines on the relationship front, the focus is already on communication and has been since early December. The same forces that are keeping your mind active, bringing a need to remain mentally active and stimulated, is also bringing a need to speak out, making it a lot harder to sit on unsaid words, with your relationships the first to benefit. As was the case last year, 2014 is an important year for home and family matters and from the get go finding and maintaining the right work/life balance is essential. You're moving into the New Year with a smart, intellectually savvy and articulate advantage, giving you an edge that you'll retain for months to come, putting you in control from the get go.

For the first time since 2002 you’re moving into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your sign, not only giving 2014 the potential for being a good year for you, but giving you a chance from the get go to take your power back. While Jupiter returned last June the year was almost half over and the dye had been caste, whereas this time you really do have a chance for a fresh start. Forget moving into the year with a list of New Year resolutions that make it about what you should be doing or what you're going to sacrifice and make it more a dream or a bucket list. Make a list of all the things you want to accomplish and achieve during the coming year and a commitment to walking the talk. The focus will always be on your relationships at this time of year, with the Sun always spending the first 3 weeks of every year in your relationship sector, but this year there is something different in the air. For the second year in a row you'll move into the New Year with powerful Saturn in your romantic sector and for the first year since 2010 Venus, planet of love in your relationship sector.

It’s not that unusual to find the planet of love here at this time of year, but what is unusual is that the month will come to an end and she’ll still be here, the same happened last month and will happen again this month. For rather than her normal 4 week visit, Venus is spending 4 months in your relationship sector and having returned in early November, by the time she leaves in March she’ll have completed her longest visit in over 200 years. The love gods are very active this month and where in the past your personal and love life may have come second to work and family commitments; there is a chance to start making up for lost time. The question you need to ask as you move into the New Year isn’t ‘what will 2014 hold for me’, rather ‘what do I want it to hold’, knowing that you have the power to move mountains if you have to.

From the get go, choose to make 2014 a year for following your passions and for doing nothing by half measures. You will always move into the New Year ready for a change and a fresh start and while you might not have a game plan or a list of New Year resolutions, you usually have a clear sense of what you do and don’t want. This is an advantage that you start the year with, but sadly it usually begins to wane as the month progresses and before long you’re into the year itself and life looks the same as it has always done. This year that is unlikely to be the case, for your heart has the kind of support that will not only keep that spirit of defiance alive, but even offers the opportunity for second chances. While moving into the New Year with lucky Jupiter in your income sector and Venus, planet of money, desire and attraction in your financial sector is going to put a lot of focus on money, making 2014 an important year for both income and money matters, you're able to see beyond the money, which is simply a means to an end. Where there are income opportunities you have the career and work opportunities to back this up, knowing that if you put in the work, follow your professional dreams and do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, making income opportunities less a hand out from the money gods and more something you have earned and deserve.

A Full Moon in your income sector on the 16th January is the first involving lucky Jupiter in 12 years, so could get your financial year off to a good start. However, with your romantic and creative passions engaged and an unwillingness to remain sitting on the fence, life is offering too many temptations and distractions to make it all about the money or to allow life to become all work and no play.

This is one year where you need to leave the New Year resolutions for later in the month, with the competitiveness required to set goals and create a game plan to make it happen not kicking in until the 12th January, not really cementing itself until the 20th January and the New Moon on the 31st January the point you need to aim for. This may create a sense that you're a little slow off the mark this year, but you're better to wait, explore your options, get a feel for the year itself and know that you're making the right goals and commitments, rather than committing to the wrong ones only to see them fizzle out. Instead there is a sense of adventure in the air that needs to be embraced, with the universe bringing a special treat, not just this month but right through until March. You will always move into the New Year with the Sun in your sector of travel, adventure, learning and discovery, but this year Venus is spending 4 months rather than 4 weeks here, her longest visit in over 200 years.

A New Moon here on the 2nd January will give you a chance to commit to the journey rather than any specific goals, objectives or resolutions, giving the year an exciting twist from the get go. With Mercury returning to your career sector on the 12th January, the Sun on the 20th January and a New Moon on the 31st January you will become more competitively focused as the month progresses, but the spirit of adventure will never be too far from the surface. Your biggest challenge will be finding a balance between work and play, for at the same time that professional and competitive forces will kick in as the month progresses, you'll not only begin the year with Mars, warrior planet of the cosmos in your work sector, but he’ll remain here until July, making his longest visit since 1982.

You will always ride into the New Year on a wave of competitiveness and if it’s not in the form of mile high New Year resolutions, you’ll have personal or professional goals and ambitions that have you ready to embrace this as the opportunity for a fresh start this is. That’s because you will always move into any year with the Sun in a competitive part of your chart, with his departure on the 20th January the point where you usually end up in trouble, with your enthusiasm and determination waning. That’s unlikely to be the case this year, for you have a secret weapon on board that is likely to keep your competitive spirit high right through to March, long enough to get things in motion and get things to a point where there is no going back. That secret weapon is Venus, making her longest visit to your career sector, the most competitively charged area of your chart in 200 years, not only giving your heart a lot more determination, but triggering the laws of attraction along with the opportunity for some second chances.

Yet from the get go, 2014 is going to present itself as a year where home and relationship matters are not only important, but unusually so. This is not usually the time of year where either home or relationship matters are in the cosmic limelight, but they are right in the centre of things, not only this month but for the first half of the year. This brings a call to move into the New Year aware of a need to have the right work/life balance, aware that in order to have it all that there needs to be balance and boundary setting. As the month progresses you'll find a social vibe will gradually kick in, with a chance for both personal and professional networking, friendship and relationship building.